Psychiatry, mental institutions, and the mad in apartheid South Africa /

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In the late 1970s, South African mental institutions were plagued with scandals about human rights abuse, and psychiatric practitioners were accused of being agents of the apartheid state. Between 1939 and 1994, some psychiatric practitioners supported the mandate of the racist and heteropatriarchal...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jones, Tiffany F. (Tiffany Fawn), 1972-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2012.
Colección:African studies (Routledge (Firm))
Temas:
Mental health services > South Africa.
Mentally ill > Commitment and detention > South Africa.
Mentally ill > Abuse of > South Africa.
Mental health policy > Social aspects > South Africa.
Services de santé mentale > Afrique du Sud.
Internement (Psychiatrie) > Afrique du Sud.
Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale > Violence envers > Afrique du Sud.
Santé mentale > Politique gouvernementale > Aspect social > Afrique du Sud.
MEDICAL > Mental Health.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Health.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness.
Mental health services
Mentally ill > Abuse of
Mentally ill > Commitment and detention
Race relations
South Africa > Race relations.
Afrique du Sud > Relations raciales.
South Africa
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prospects of a progressive mental health system in South Africa before apartheid: Tara Hospital and psychobiology, c.1939-1948
  • The "disordered" state: government policies and institutions for the administration of the mad during apartheid, 1948-1973
  • Patient accounts: life in state institutions and challenging exile, 1939-1961
  • Heinous crimes: community and cross-cultural psychiatry, and state mental health services for non-whites, 1948-1990
  • Controlling and challenging sexuality: psychiatric struggles over homosexuality in the 1960s-1980s
  • "Monopoly on madness?": private long-term mental institutions in South Africa, 1963-1989
  • Critics of the system?: the Church of Scientology and the international vilification of psychiatry in South Africa
  • Conclusion.

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